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The lack of progress in reducing tobacco use in the U.S. is particularly alarming when the overall statistics are broken down along geographic, ethnic, education and socio-economic lines. Over the last half century, the tobacco epidemic has been transform

In future research of e-cigarettes’ efficacy...both device characteristics and smokers’ expectations for these devices should be considered, so vapers do not expect the same...“whole body” satisfaction as they experienced with their menthol cigarettes.

Almost half (46.8 percent) of Black nonsmokers in the United States are exposed to secondhand smoke. Secondhand smoke exposure is higher among people with low incomes. two out of every 5 (43.2 percent) nonsmokers who lived below the poverty level were ex

The counties of Contra Costa and San Francisco as well as the cities of Oakland, San Leandro and Los Gatos have introduced overreaching ordinances that single out family- and minority-owned businesses in an effort to score political points. "Convenience

Examinations of public opinions toward menthol cigarettes through social media can help to inform the framing of public communication about menthol cigarettes, particularly in light of potential regulation by the European Union, US Food and Drug Administr

menthol cigarettes and Twitter share something in common: their users are more often racial minorities, youth and young adults. Because of that, researchers turned to the social network to learn more about how menthol is perceived—information that could

An MTA conductor was punched in the face by an irate 7 train rider after being told that he was not permitted to smoke on the train, police said. The conductor, 50, caught the man smoking on a Manhattan-bound train as it was approaching the Hunters Poin

A convenience store employee’s life may have been taken by a man angered that he could not buy single cigarettes. About 11:15 Thursday night, a white male who appeared to be in his 20s went into Hatch Food & Gas on West Hatch Road At Dallas Street and w

Another clerk at the store Sukhwinder Singh, describing the events that led to the fatal encounter, said the outburst began apparently over being asked for an ID and Jagjeet had refused to sell cigarettes to the unidentified person as he did not show any